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Brilliant plan ! The individual or group that thought this one up should be held responsible for the debt. Your Tax dollar hard at work . This is why we need to educate our people , so they can think to steps a head of a pig, though they are one of the smartest farm animals.

Open the back country to hunters and put a bounty on the wild bore with out having the state charge a fee/tax for tags. This will clear the problem up in no time. We do not need the feds to run our state.

Besides,
This started from the Pala Indian Reservation, the Pala tribe should be responsible for the cost incurred not the public.

Great lets kill the innocent animals. They should round up the person(s) who thought of this plan and put them in jail for animal cruelty. Instead of killing them they should trap them and send them to petting farms, and fairs. Terrible, terrible, terrible! What a waste of taxpayers money as well.

Lots of errors in this story.
1- There is no major hunt getting under way. 2- Hunting hasn’t even been selected as the option — it’s only being considered as one option of many, which may – or may not – include one or more of the types of hunting mentioned in the story (trapping, runs, helicopters,etc).
3- There was one report in a local paper claiming that it started on a local Indian Reservation. Totally unconfirmed and based on a source’s 2nd-hand account. Even then it was never reported as a way to increase business at all. On a reservation or anywhere. Just for hunting, allegedly.

I hunt these pigs and its no easy task back there in the roughest terrain SD has to offer. the pigs are smart, fast and tough as nails. I feel the best method would be to open up some closed to hunting areas, allow night time hunting and baiting which would make the task not easy but at least doable.